Between 2009 and 2017, Animal Aid secretly filmed inside thirteen randomly chosen UK slaughterhouses and found twelve of them were breaking animal welfare laws. It is clear that better regulation is needed, starting with independently monitored CCTV cameras in all slaughterhouses. Despite the widespread abuses, 200 MPs signalling their support for mandatory CCTV, the Farm Animal Welfare Committee reporting on its benefits, the British Veterinary Association supporting its introduction, the Food Standards Agency stating that ‘the case is made’, and Defra Minister George Eustice accepting that the cost of camera installation is ‘relatively modest’, the government has yet to make independently monitored cameras mandatory.